NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010 

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast
System Reanalysis (CFSR) was initially completed over the 31-year period from
1979 to 2009 and has been extended to March 2011.  CFSR was initialized 4 times
per day (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC), and the 6-hourly atmospheric, oceanic
and land surface analyzed products are available at 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 1.9, and 2.5
degree horizontal resolutions, along with forecast hours 1 through 6.  However,
not all parameters are available at all resolutions and some parameters are not
analyzed (e.g. 2 meter temperature, 10 meter winds), so please consult the detailed
metadata for exact descriptions of what is available.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-01-01T0000+00
    End:  2011-01-01T0300+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2011-01-01T0300+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.0
Bounding Box South Lat -90.0
Bounding Box West Long -180.0
Bounding Box East Long 180.0
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 0.5 degree
1 degree
2.5 degree
1.875 degree
0.312 degree
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Description of CFSR at the NCAR Climate Data Guide
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO GRIB2
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 55812502.816 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name N/A
Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2010-01-20
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J
Alternate Identifier d093000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-11-14T13:05:05Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d093000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation . (2010). NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J. Accessed 29 December 2025.

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